Poll: What is your definition of camping?

[Tanner The Monotone]

My definition of camping would be sitting in a corner, waiting for people to come by,and repeat this process for the rest of this game.

I would not consider patrolling one house as camping.

I want to know the general consensus on what camping exactly is. If your definition is not in the poll choices, please pick other and type it down.

EDIT: NOOOO, NOT THE THING WITH THE FIRE AND THE MARSHMALLOWS AND THE TENTS AND THE AWKWARD SITUATIONS!

Edit: for some reason my poll didn't show up, so I guess you'll have to do it manually

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Camping is just hiding around corners and waiting for someone to inevitably walk by so you can shank them in the back.


Aiming a sniper rifle out of a window and defending a choke point or some open ground, is not camping.

That is strategy.

 

[Sassafrass]

In a nut-shell, this is camping.
Not moving, always going back to the same spot over and over and over and over when you do get killed.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Camp (v.): An FPS tactic, whereby you stay in one spot and repeatedly kill people dumb enough to keep running past your one spot. Much hated by people who are bad enough at the game to repeatedly get killed by someone they know the exact location of at all times.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

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For me it depends where they hide.
Generally speaking, if they are in a wide, open area it's fine, if they are in a small enclosed area (under some stairs, in a cupboard etc.) it's a noob tactic.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Camp (v.): An FPS tactic, whereby you stay in one spot and repeatedly kill people dumb enough to keep running past your one spot. Much hated by people who are bad enough at the game to repeatedly get killed by someone they know the exact location of at all times.

Yeah, pretty much this. The term "camping" pretty much tells the tale. The implication is you've set up shop in one spot, presumably a desirable spot that creates issues for your opponent, and you just sort of hang out there all match causing problems.

Why on earth people complain about this like it's some kind of special griefing tactic I'll never understand. The only exception is spawn point camping, but that's less a case of "camping" specifically and more a case of abusing game play mechanics.

 

[Epona]

Going out in the woods or even to a resort and sleeping in a tent, making campfires, roasting hot dogs, etc...

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

It's a thing I do in the woods when I need to dispose of bodies but lack the chemicals for a sewerage disposal.

 

[Mr. Omega]

It's all about intention.

If you are waiting behind a doorway because you know there's someone on the other side and they'll kill you if you go in, so you wait for them to come to you, that's not camping, that's being smart.

If you are waiting behind a doorway because you know that sooner or later someone is going to come to you and you can kill them, that's camping.

 

[RJ 17]

Well really there's good campers and bad campers.

Bad campers are those that follow the definition most people have offered: sticking to the same spot and picking off people that come by. If you die, return to that same spot.

Good campers are those that choose not a spot, but a general area (usually a room in a building) and rather than sticking to the same spot, after every kill they move to a new spot in the room, thus preventing the guy from coming around the corner aiming exactly where you've been sitting the whole time.

That said, I still think both strategies are lame. I mean really? You want to spend 10 minutes staring at a wall, maybe getting 7-8 kills?

 

[Folji]

That's when my party sits around a campfire, talking about stuff while waiting for the last few stragglers to catch up so that we can head into the dungeon.


Oh, wait, we're talking about FPS camping aren't we?

 

[Vegosiux]

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For me it depends where they hide.
Generally speaking, if they are in a wide, open area it's fine, if they are in a small enclosed area (under some stairs, in a cupboard etc.) it's a noob tactic.

A noob tactic or just, y'know, pragmatism? If there's no objective on the map why would camping in an easily defensible position be a "noob" tactic? It's the most rational tactic of them all.

 

[AdmiralMemo]

I only hate spawn-camping and teleporter-camping, because they're taking advantage of disorientation and game-play mechanics rather than strategy. All other types of "camping" don't bother me.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

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For me it depends where they hide.
Generally speaking, if they are in a wide, open area it's fine, if they are in a small enclosed area (under some stairs, in a cupboard etc.) it's a noob tactic.

A noob tactic or just, y'know, pragmatism? If there's no objective on the map why would camping in an easily defensible position be a "noob" tactic? It's the most rational tactic of them all.

You're playing a game, with tonnes of fun environments, great action, different guns, weapons, possibly vehicles. People are running about all over the map, strafing, fliting from cover to cover like a heavily armed sparrow, making mad dashes out in the open, sneaking through hedges like ninjas, bouncing grenades about, knifing each other, having a whale of a time, and then there's the guy who spends the entire match sitting in a cupboard, so he can experience the intense action of clicking the mouse when a person walks into the room and they fall down dead from his point-blank shotgun blast. He could have the functionality of every other button removed and it wouldn't harm his gameplay tactic. There's no challenge, no strategy, no action; it's just pointless. They distill the myriad of options for fun they are given in multiplayer down to sit stationary in blind corner and click mouse when movement happens on screen. Farmville has more action than that.

 

[kommando367]

A tactic that involves hiding in 1 spot, for more than 30 seconds, for the SOLE purpose of killing enemies.

Patrolling an area or defending an objective by staying in 1 spot is not true camping as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Vegosiux]

There's no challenge, no strategy, no action; it's just pointless. They distill the myriad of options for fun they are given in multiplayer down to sit stationary in blind corner and click mouse when movement happens on screen. Farmville has more action than that.

Well, not being a FPS expert, I wouldn't know, but I also wouldn't be cranky because someone else is missing out on the fun by their own choice 0.o